Melissa Castillo was tired of draining her insurance expense account by going to UF’s Student Health Care Center for her migraines.
UF’s Homecoming Queen was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence early Thursday morning.
In Patrick Poage’s response to Tuesday’s guest column, he took offense to the characterization of the United States’ actions against al-Qaida and other terror organizations as a “war on terror.”
There are still remnants of paper stuffed in Corey Davila’s trash can from Wednesday morning.
Sitting in the Reitz Union yesterday, I was approached by a student senator who encouraged me to sign a petition in favor of a “small fee” that would favor a new student union. He assured me that the fee would “only be a couple of dollars” and that I would be leaving a legacy for future Florida students.
It seems that there are many people out there ill-informed about the Cuban embargo. The first false assumption people make is that the U.S. initiated the embargo because Cuba became a communist country. The truth is that the U.S. enacted the embargo because when the Castro regime took power in 1959, it expropriated all of the properties of the U.S., including that of American citizens and corporations. Castro enriched his regime with the millions of dollars he stole from the U.S. and has never paid the money back.
Are undergrads seriously up in arms over a $20 flat fee plus $3 per credit hour for the new Reitz Union? I’m an out-of-state student receiving $0 in government aid. In case you’re unaware, out-of-state tuition is now approaching $800 per credit. My Reitz student fee of $65 would buy me a little more than one hour of class at UF.
On Wednesday, the UF Graduate Student Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing additional student fees for the renovation of the Reitz Union. This measure was taken to contest the recent resolution passed by UF Student Government proposing such fee increases.
Last week was unusually slow for the Department of Darts and Laurels. In light of this, we made a (desperate?) plea for Gators to go out and make some real news. While we doubt that the overwhelming response was due entirely to the public pity party we held for ourselves last week, we think it helped. So now, inundated with news, we would like to present you with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for edition of:
When the going got tough, Kenny Boynton got going.
Florida shot miserably against Georgia Southern on Wednesday night, but the Gators opened up a 20-point win in the second half thanks to their defense.
In one of their biggest matches of the season, a usual strength for the Gators turned into a weakness.
It is never too late to make your dream a reality, and so Florida junior Conor Dwyer has proven.
The Reitz Union is a place where students can gather together, but discussions of a proposed student fee to fund its renovation, repairs and expansion are dividing students and Student Government senators.
Theatre Strike Force doesn’t need scripts to get a laugh.
The office of UF’s political science department was closed for about three hours Friday due to safety concerns after a political science professor was arrested on a domestic battery charge the day before.
It’s not too often that an ad campaign goes from startlingly stupid to strangely brilliant with a swapped-out voiceover, but Miracle Whip pulled off that trick with some of their most recent ads. And like a lot of things that are brilliant, Stephen Colbert is involved.
A new report released by the National Wildlife Federation shows that the sustainability movement is energizing college campuses across the nation.
Students waiting outside the Student Health Care Center Thursday had more on their minds than the upcoming Thanksgiving break.
Fingers stained with ink and rooms with the scent of freshly brushed paint adorned the UF campus Friday night. Art students scattered with their artwork throughout the Fine Arts complex to showcase their latest creations for UF’s School of Art and Art History’s annual Art Bash event.
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